From the L.A. Times:
As the Bush administration struggles to convince lawmakers that its Iraq war strategy is working, it has stopped reporting to Congress a key quality-of-life indicator in Baghdad: how long the power stays on.
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Baghdad residents could count [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
U.S. drops Baghdad electricity reports
The House Floor a-Twitter
Thanks to Free Government Information for the pointer:
twitter.com/HouseFloor has live updates from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, updated every five minutes with any new information from:
clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html.
This is in beta testing mode…
Revamped WhiteHouseForSale Web Site Tracks 2008 Presidential Candidates’ “Bundlers”
From Public Citizen:
Public Citizen today unveiled a Web site that provides an up-to-date listing of the 2008 presidential hopefuls’ “bundlers,” the super-fundraisers who are powering the billion-dollar race for the White House. The revitalized site, an expansion of Public Citizen’s similar effort during the 2004 campaign and the only such clearinghouse for the 2008 campaign, [...]
Eighth U.S. e-Government Study
Brown University Press Release:
Delaware and Michigan are the best states for e-government in the United States, according to the eighth annual e-government analysis conducted by researchers at Brown University. The federal portal USA.gov and the Department of Agriculture are the most highly rated federal sites.
Darrell M. West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy [...]
Brief Overview of the Freedom of Information Act
PowerPoint slides from Susan Cornell, Freedom of Information Officer and Chief FOIA Liaison, NIH
Judges Respond to Site Outing Informants
From the Washington Post:
In response to a Web site that outs criminal informants and undercover agents, some U.S. judges are withholding certain court documents from the Internet.
Federal judges in eastern Pennsylvania and southern Florida are keeping plea and sentencing memos out of online case files because of concerns that the information is being posted on [...]
Malaysian minister warns bloggers face harsh laws
From Yahoo! News UK:
A senior Malaysian minister warned bloggers the government was fast losing patience and would bring the full weight of the law against those who use the Internet to insult the king or Islam, a report said Wednesday.
“Even thought the government has been tolerant of anti-government positions and criticisms on the Internet, we [...]
Congress: P2P networks harm national security
From News.com:
Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a “national security threat” because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers.
At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is considering new laws aimed at addressing the [...]
NC AG: MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders on its site, 4 times the figure previously disclosed
From the Mercury News:
MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site – more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday.
UK rejects music copyright extension
From Reuters:
The British government rejected a plea to extend copyright laws for sound recordings to beyond 50 years on Tuesday, prompting the music industry to accuse it of not supporting musicians and artists.